Günther Weinschenck

Günther Weinschenck (born March 7, 1926 in Frankenhain (Gruta Folwark), district of Graudenz ; † December 14, 2018 in Stuttgart ) was a German agricultural economist and economist .

Life

The son of a farmer, he studied after the Second World War agriculture at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there in 1954 when Emil Woermann with the dissertation contribution to the theory of elasticity production on the farm Dr. agr. He then worked as an assistant at the Göttingen Institute for Farm Management. From here Weinschenck went to the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois in Urbana (USA) to deepen his knowledge in 1956/57 , where he received new ideas, especially from Swanson and West.

After his return to the Göttingen Institute for Farm Management, Weinschenck mainly dealt with problems of farm theory and with mathematical optimization methods. They found their expression in his habilitation thesis presented in Göttingen in 1962 on the subject of investigations of the equilibrium and price elasticity of production in the agricultural enterprise and in the book The optimal organization of the agricultural enterprise , 1964. With this he received the Venia legendi for the economics of agriculture in Göttingen.

From 1962 Weinschenck headed the Institute for Business Administration at the Research Institute for Agriculture (FAL) in Braunschweig-Völkenrode, and in autumn 1963 he accepted an appointment as professor and director of the Institute for Economic Studies in Agriculture at the Hohenheim Agricultural University , which later became the Institute for Agriculture. Business apprenticeship, where he worked until his retirement in 1991.

Weinschenck was able to continue his previous research work in Hohenheim and complemented himself excellently with Erwin Reisch in his teaching tasks . His main concern was to understand the organism theory of the agr. To combine operations with limit value theory through modern optimization and planning processes. He has written numerous scientific studies and articles about it, B. Limit theory and calculation methods in agr. Business; Problems of quantitative supply analysis on agricultural markets; The operational planning in the case of imperfect information; For the theory and determination of the spatial balance of the agr. Production (together with Wilhelm Henrichsmeyer ).

From the 1970s onwards, Weinschenck increasingly included ecological questions in his research, for which the following works are exemplary: Possibilities and limits of an ecologically justified limitation of the intensity of agricultural production (with HJ Gebhard), 1985; The economic or ecological way ?; Agricultural economics between practical and theoretical reason, lecture at the agricultural university conference of the University of Hohenheim 1993.

Weinschenck was one of the leading theorists of modern agricultural management of his time. For many years he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests in Bonn and co-editor of the magazine Agrarwirtschaft.

literature

• Theophil Gerber: personalities from agriculture, forestry, horticulture and veterinary medicine; Biographical Lexicon . NORA Verlagsgemeinschaft Dyck & Westerheide, Berlin, ISBN 3-936735-67-0 .
• Harald Winkel (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Günther Franz history and natural science in Hohenheim . Thorbecke publishing house, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 0-7181-2842-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Günther Weinschenck in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice Prof. em. Günther Weinschenck